Gimpysoft

After gorging on all 39 episodes in Seasons 1-3 of The Wire in the space of ten days over the summer, having to wait a week between every episode in Season 4 is a bit maddening.  I did get my DirecTV installed in time for the official premiere of Season 4, and yeah, it’s pretty much as good as everybody is saying.

Still, like I said, a summer of Netflix fueled TV binging has really made it seem like that’s the way TV should be watched.  This year we’ve watched six seasons of David Simon’s first show, Homicide: Life On The Street, watched seasons 1-3 of The Wire, caught up with Season 1 of Weeds, rewatched the BBC’s version of The Office, caught up with Season 5 of Curb Your Enthusiasm, watched the full run of the BBC’s serial-killer show Wire In The Blood, Season 1 of Larry Sanders, Freak & Geeks, and the first four seasons of NewsRadio.  Dang, no wonder we were able to go so long without cable.  We weren’t not watching TV, we were just rewatching all the old stuff we had missed.

I don’t know how I’m going to make it through this season of The Wire spaced out over sixteen weeks.  More than any other, I really think this show is better viewed on DVD.  The plot builds slowly over the course of a season, so it’s nice to be able to watch in three or four episode chunks.

Still, it’s not like I’m going to wait for Season 4 to come out on DVD.  I’ll be watching every Sunday night this fall like some sort of dope fiend.  Also, God Bless You HBO.  Thanks for not leaving us twisting in the wind and just getting the announcement of a fifth season out of the way.  It’s great that David Simon is going to be able to finish what he started.  I just wonder what he’ll do afterwards…